Software advice
AI software advice: ranked buyer's guides
Each guide ranks the tools in one AI category on output quality, the real price, data handling, lock-in and fit, and says who each one is wrong for.
Best AI Chat Assistants in 2026
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Microsoft Copilot and 5 more, ranked.
Best AI Coding Assistants in 2026
Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Claude Code, OpenAI Codex and 5 more, ranked.
Best AI Image Generators in 2026
Midjourney, Adobe Firefly, Ideogram, FLUX by Black Forest Labs and 4 more, ranked.
Best AI Writing Tools in 2026
Grammarly, Jasper, Writer, DeepL Write and 6 more, ranked.
Best AI Meeting Assistants in 2026
Fathom, Fireflies.ai, Otter.ai, Granola and 5 more, ranked.
Best AI Video Generators in 2026
Runway, Google Veo (Flow), Luma, Kling AI and 5 more, ranked.
New guides are added slowly on purpose, so each one can be checked against vendor pages before it is published. See the methodology.